CHAPTER In. DRYING THE PRINTS.
b many establishments the. prints are taken direct from the washing Wllter, and hung up by American clips, and thus allowed to dry. When this is done, the prints curl up as the water leaves the paper, and thev beco111.e somewhat unmanageable. If prints have to be dried at all before mountingand they must, uuleBB they are trimmed before toning-a better plan is to make a· neat heap of some fifty or sixty of the same size (say carte11), place them on blotting-paper, an!! drain for a time, and then in a screw-press (such as is used to press table-cloths, for instance) to squeeze out all superfluous, water. After a good hard squeeze· the print'~ sho.uld be 8ep11rated, and the plnn adopted by Mr. EnglBnd ·carried ~ut•. He has frames of light laths made, of about 6 feet .by 3 feet;:and over this f.rame is stretched ordinary papel'hat~ger's canvas. The prints are laid OJ:!. this to dry· spontaneously, and they cockle. up but very little. The frames, being light, are easily htmdl~. .Mter ~he squeezing is donP, supposing the. room in which they are placed be not very damp or very cold, the prints will be refdY for trimming and mounting in a couple of hours. To our IJliP4s there is nothing superior to this mode of drying; since ·the equeuing in the.pret'~ tends to eliminate every elight: trace .of hyp(!sulphite which might be left in them. ·